A Study Of Anticipation In Simultaneous Interpreting Under Schema Theory ——A Case Analysis Of President Xi’s Speech Of The Conference On Dialogue Of Asian Civilizations

Anticipation in simultaneous interpreting deserves further study by scholars.Due to the frequent use of anticipation in simultaneous interpretation,the thesis chooses Chernov and Gile’s perspective on anticipation to study linguistic and extra-linguistic anticipation in simultaneous interpretation.Four levels of linguistic anticipation was focused in relation to Chernov’s “Probability-prediction Model”.Guided by Schema Theory and incorporating the theory of anticipation from both Chernov and Gile,and President Xi Jinping’s speech at the opening of the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations is selected as a corpus and applied the case study method.Firstly,guided by Schema Theory,this thesis studies Chernov’s“Probability-prediction Model” of linguistic schema into phonological,lexical,semantic,and syntactic schema.Secondly,combining Gile’s anticipation and Chernov’s redundancy,the thesis studies the anticipation of content schema as well as structural schema.The anticipation of content schema is divided into background knowledge of the theme and encyclopedic knowledge.Similarly,the anticipation of structural schema is divided into argumentative expressions and narrative expressions.Finally,based on the theory of anticipation of Chernov and Gile,this thesis studies the anticipation of image schema.And the anticipation of image schema could be divided into part-whole schema and linear order schema.The research in this thesis firstly reveals that schema,as a knowledge structure that exists in the human mind,can effectively facilitate the interpreter to make proper anticipation during intense,high-intensity simultaneous interpreting.Secondly,the higher the redundancy of the information received by the interpreter in simultaneous interpreting the higher the accuracy of the anticipation.This so-called information redundancy,known as schema,helps the interpreter predict and improve the efficiency of interpretation.At the same time,combined with the case study,extra-linguistic anticipation is as important as linguistic anticipation when the interpreter uses the anticipation strategy.Therefore,the interpreter needs to strengthen their usual accumulation of encyclopedic knowledge and store different schemata to enable the interpreter to make effective anticipation in simultaneous interpreting.Finally,it has shown that image schema of anticipation assists the interpreter in forming concrete images in minds and that the co-existence of images and texts is more helpful to the interpreter’s use of anticipation strategy in simultaneous interpreting.